One on one with Spencer
What is your child actually stuck on?
Book an hour with Spencer. He will look at where your child actually is, name the skill that is missing, and give you a plan you can start the same day.
Sound familiar
Which one of these is happening at your house?
Parents come to me with the same kinds of problems, and the cause behind them is different in almost every family.
“She memorized the book. I cannot tell whether she is actually reading it.”
Memorizing is a normal stage rather than a problem. What matters is what you do with that same book next, and most parents move on from it too early.
“He shuts down the second anything with words on it comes out.”
Usually this has stopped being about reading. Something in the routine has started to feel like a test, and the fix is in the setup rather than in more practice.
“She reads fine with me and freezes the moment anyone else is watching.”
Almost always confidence rather than skill. It responds to a change in how you practice together, and it rarely responds to practicing more.
“We have run the same lesson for a month and nothing has changed.”
Usually a skill underneath the lesson got skipped, so the lesson has nowhere to land. Repeating it will not help until the gap underneath is filled.
The good news
Fixing any one of these generally takes a week or two. In an hour together we find out what is actually going on, and you walk away with the plan for what comes next.
The hour
Where the time actually goes.
None of it is spent on introductions, because I read your intake form before we meet.
The call is $399 and runs a full hour. If it is not the most helpful reading conversation you have had, I will refund it in full.
After the call
What parents say once it is over.
I had been running the same lesson for six weeks and getting nowhere. Spencer found the problem in about four minutes. It was not the lesson at all. She could not hear the last sound in the word.
I went in assuming I would be told to buy something else. He built the entire plan out of things I already had in the closet.
An hour, and I stopped feeling like I was failing him. That alone would have been worth it. The reading came after.
Individual experiences vary. Every child moves at a different pace, and nothing here is a guarantee of a specific result or timeline.
Before you book
Questions parents actually ask.
If something is not covered here, ask me on the call.
Fill out the intake form honestly, and have whatever materials you already use within reach. If you are able to record a short video of your child reading or working on sounds, send it along, because thirty seconds of footage tells me more than a paragraph does.
It is not. A good part of this work is knowing what is reasonable to expect right now and what to leave alone until later. Plenty of these calls end with a parent doing less rather than more.
It is neither. I am a reading teacher rather than a clinician. If something in the call suggests your child should be seen by a speech language pathologist or an educational specialist, I will say so plainly and tell you what to ask for.
Placeholder answer. Confirm the reschedule and cancellation window against what the scheduler is currently set to.
Choose your time
Pick an hour that works for you.
You have already done the hard part. You bought the materials and you showed up for the lessons. Give me an hour and I will tell you what is missing.
The call is $399 and runs a full hour. If it is not the most helpful reading conversation you have had, I will refund it in full.